Google Street View car crashes into bus after crashing into different bus

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Google’s Street View cars are the holy grail of the highway. You can’t help but become extremely giddy when you see one, especially because you can be burned into Street View doing something wacky if you can correctly time your appearance in front of the vehicle’s cameras. Now, however, after an accident in Indonesia, you might become more anxious than giddy when you see a Street View car roll by.

Rather than, for example, crash into a tree at a low speed, the Google Street View car hit a bus in Bogor, Indonesia. Instead of awkwardly getting out of the car to apologize and exchange information — or whatever the Indonesian equivalent of that is — the car’s driver tried to flee the scene, and in the process crashed into another bus.

The driver also hit a truck. There is no word if anyone was seriously harmed during the ordeal, but Google did confirm that it indeed took place, and said the company is working closely with local authorities to sort out the situation.

Earlier this year, word got out that a Google Street View car ran over a donkey in Botswana, as scenes from Street View actually showed a donkey moseying along in one scene, then lying on the road in a subsequent scene. Google, however, said it turned out the donkey just decided to lie down, and happily got up and walked away shortly after.

So, while a Street View car probably wasn’t responsible for the death of an innocent donkey, this car in Indonesia did, in fact, play bumper cars with some busses and a truck.